Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-07

DEVELOPMENT and it is entitled without
affectation or hypocrisy to the utmost
regard. The standard of our ldborers'
lives should not he marred by that of
another country less favored. and
they are entitled to their full share OF
our advantages.
LABOR STATISTICS.
By the last census it il made to APP
pear that of the II ,392 099 OF our
population engaged in all kinds of in
du tries, 1907 ,493 are employed in
agriculture, and 4,074,23S in pro-
fessional and personal sers ice 2,449,-
S76 of whom are d nestle servants
and laborers, willie $40 256 are EN-
ployed in trade and transportation,
and 3,S37,11 classed as en-
ployed at manufacturing and min
ing. For the present purpo, es
however, the late number given
>hou'd be considerably reduced.
Without attempting to enumerate all,
it will be conceded thatthere should
he deducted from those which it in
cludes 375 IA carpenters and joiners,
.2S5. 40 milliners, dressmakers ami
seamSters, IT., l26 blacksmiths, 133.-
75G tailors and addresses, l07 900
masons, 76241 butchers, Al 500
bakers, 2,lS3 plasterers and 1901
manufacturing agricultural imple-
menta, leaving 2 ,632 1893 persons EN-
ii ye1 in manufacturing Industries
who are claimed to be benefited by q
high tariff, and to these the appeal l.
made, to save their employment and
maintain their wages, by resisting IA
change. There should be no DISPOSE
lion to answer such suggestions by
The allegations that they IA 'e in a m n
GRITTY among those who labor, and
therefore should forego their advant
ages in the interest Of low prices for the
mai nity. Their compensation as it
may be affected by
OPERATIONS OF TARIFF LAWS
Should at all times he scrupulously
kept in view, and yet, with slight re-
Elections, they will not overl ok the
fact that they are consumers with the
rest; that they, too, have their own
wants and those of their families to
supply from their earnings, and that
the prices of the necessarles OF life, AZ
we'll as the amount Of those wants.
will regulate the mea> ure of their vel
fare and comfort. But the reduction of
taxation demanded should be SO meas
ured as not to necessitate nor justify
either the loss of employment 10y the
workingman nor the lessening of his
wages, and the profits still remaining
10 the manufacturers after me- essary
REIMBURSEMENT should furnish no ex-
cuse for their sacrifice OF the interests
Of their employers in either their OPP
portunity to work or the diminution of
their compensation nor can the
worker in manufactures but under
stand that willie high tariff is
claimed to he necessary to allow hia
remnnerative payment, it certainly
results in very large increase in the
price OF nearly al sorts of manufac-
lures, which IN almost countless forms
he needs for the use of himself and
his family. He receives at the desk
If his employer his wages. and per-
haps before he reaches his home
is obliged in purchase for
family use of an article which
mbraces his own labor, to return in
The payment of the increasing price
which the tariff permits the hard
Ell ned compensation of many days OF
Toll. The farmer and the agricultu-
ralst, who manufactures nothing, but
who pays
THE INCREASED PRICE
which the tariff imposes upon every
agricultural implement, upon all he
wears and upon all he uses, and owns
naught except the increase of his
flocks and herds and such things as
his husbandry produces from the soil,
is invited to aid in maintaining the
present situation. Mind, he is told
that high duty on wool is necessary
for the benefit of those who have sheep
to shear in order that the pr ce of
their wool may be increased. The +,
of course, are not reminded that the
farmer who has no sheep is by this
scheme Obliged in his purchase of
cloihing and WOODEN goods to pay a
tribute 10 his fellow-larmers as well as
to the manufacturer and merchant,
nor is any mention made of the fact
that the sheep-owners themselves and
their h,u eholds wear cl thing and
use other a ticles manufactured from
the wool they sell at tariff prices, and
thus. as consumers. must return their
share of this increased price t.
the tradesman. l think it may
lie fairly assumed that large
proportion of the sheep owned by the
farmers throu lhout the country are
found in small flocks numbering from
% to 30. The duty on the grade OF
imported wool which these sheep yield
is ten cents tor each pound OF the
value of thirty cents or les, ami
twelve cents ii the value be more than
thirty cents. If the liberal estimate
of six pounds be allowed for each
fleece, the duty thereon would be so
@ y cents, and this may be taken as
the utmost enhan' ement OF its price
to the farmer by reason of this duty.
Eighteen dollars would thus repre-
sent the increased price Of the wool
from twenty-five sheep, and
$36 that from the wool OF
HlCy SDecp, anu DIV piSHShC NetiuOH
this addition would amount to about
one-third OF its price. Ii on its sale
the farmer receives this or less tariff
profit, the wool leaves his hands
charged with precisely that sum,
which in all its changes will adhere 10
it until it reaches the consumer.
When manufactured into cloth and
other goods and material for use, its
cost is not only increased to the ex-
tent of the farmers tariff profit, but
A FURTHER SUN
Has been added for the benefit of the
manufacturer under the operation OF
other tariff laws. In the meantime
the day arrives when the farmer finds
it necessary to purchase WOODEN
goods and material to clothe himself
and family for the winter. When he
faces tradesmen for that purpose he
finds that he is obliged not only to re-
turn in the way OF increased prices